of the period style appear elsewhere throughout the main floor rooms. The Wiltsie House's handsome mahogany paneling has been cleaned and repaired and dark wood louvered blinds replace dust-catching heavy curtains.

New paint in appropriate period colors brighten the main rooms - teal blue/green in the Board Room, stone with white moldings on the rusticated walls of the Main Office, terracotta in the Conference Room, and pale gold in the Entrance Hall. Dark ceilings have been lightened, and cushions in the Board Room are now covered in velvet.

Space is being reconfigured, with the front counter moved forward to permit more efficient use of the Main Office. The new three-zone oil-fired heating system means that all three floors of the building will be both heated and air-conditioned. As a result, little-used space on the second floor is now fully functional, and its three rooms have been cleaned and freshly painted for in-house use.

The prospect of central air-condition is especially welcome according to Clerk Hartsig. "When you have 50 people for a meeting in the Board Room on a hot summer night, the discomfort level can be pretty high," she says. Finishing touches on the renovations, including installation of new carpeting, should be completed sometime later this Fall. Stop in and have a look at the work in progress!

With cold weather coming on, the Village staff members say they are looking forward to working in offices that are comfortable, efficiently, and reliably heated. No more frequent service calls to tune up an archaic heating system that probably dates from the 1930s when the Wiltsie Building became the community library.

After several months of renovation, the Village Hall is taking on a new life, with improvements both functional and aesthetic. Reproductions period lighting fixtures - copies of the type used in old court houses - replace utilitarian fluorescent-and-plastic lights in the main office, and variations